Contributed by alex101. Posted by Meg on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

The Offspring has announced that Atom Willard (drums) has left the band to fully focus on his other project, Angels and Airwaves. Replacing Willard will be Pete Parada, formerly of Face to Face, Saves the Day and Alkaline Trio.

The band is currently hard at work on their follow-up to 2003's Splinter. The new album would have been the first studio-recorded album with Willard.

He came in after Mike left, a little after From Here to Infirmary came out. Both him and Atom were touring drummers, although they did record a track with one of them (the name fleets me, but it may have been the Hell Yes! EP).

So the Offspring are really the Phoenix Coyotes of Punk Rock?
I always thought as much.
What a waste of a pickup that was, I just hope my chicago blackhawks find a way to get rid of Nikolai Khabibulin even if it means playing empty net, 6 on 5 all season.

Yeah, Freese played drums on Splinter, and did a shitty job. Well, maybe not shitty, but his playing was your standard, run of the mill studio drumming. The drum tracks were very bland and lacked creativity. I expected much, much more from Mr. Freese. Yet, he may have been aiming for a bland attempt at studio drumming solely to give the next drummer room to improve the set list. All I know is, I bought Splinter because of Freese and was thoroughly disappointed with his effort.

One of the consistantly great live bands out there right now. My favorite DKM stuff was with the Mike McColgan anyway, so it made perfect sense that the Street Dogs would be just as good, if not better and to me, I'm right. I see them whenever I can, can't wait for the new album

i dont know why people here hate offspring so much, they have plenty of great songs. o well. fuck angels and airwaves, i dont know a single person who actually likes that band, but apparently people do.